Endorsements Internet Poker

Has poker finally come into the big time? According to Card Player a new Diet pepsi commercial will feature three poker players, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and Scotty Nguyen, squaring off against the can at the poker table.What commercials should we expect to see poker players in next? Air Ivey shoes? [...] Read More


Daniel Negreanu Backs His Play With Prop Bets Internet Poker

I have been a reader of Full Contact Poker's forums for quite some time after seeing one of the best all-around poker players, Daniel Negreanu, open the doors to his blog and website. The poker site didn't last long thanks to the wonderful Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that scared off the newer players and was eventually forced to merge with PokerStars. But, the forums and Daniel's blog have continued [...] Read More


Kid Poker Joins Team PokerStars Internet Poker

As Daniel Negreanu was gearing up for his first final table during this year's $1,500 No Limit Hold Em' shootout event, a little news finally came to light for his personal site/poker forum Full Contact Poker. In what started as a poker forum, became a decent sized online poker site with all the fixins of a player in the industry. Unfortunately, as most of the smaller sites have done for [...] Read More


LPGA Endorsements Grow Eagle Par Birdie

Courtesy: Today's Golfer The women's professional golf game has truly gone global. And it has been the LPGA Tour's salvation. LPGA players are starting to pull in some decent sponsorship and endorsement money - after 59 years in existence. [...] Read More


Celebrity Endorsements Are Just a Click Away! Bizinformer

There are a variety of different marketing methods: Bandwagon: come along, EVERYONE is doing it Price: We are the cheapest - so buy from us Referral: Remember the phone companies asking you to refer friends and family members? But one of the most recognized is a celebrity endorsement. Imagine your favorite celebrity wearing your clothing, driving your car, touting your personal services? Well, now ANYONE can approach the celebrity of their choice for marketing, promotions [...] Read More

Scratch & Win Internet Poker

According toYahoo Finance Pennsylvania residents can win their way into this year's WSOP Main Event for as little as $5 by playing instant lottery tickets. The scratch off ticket awards cash prizes and 15 WSOP trips, worth $20,000 each. Players who aren't lucky enough to win in their first attempt can then send the voided tickets in to win one of five second chance WSOP packages. [...] Read More


Live Poker Tournament on FSN Internet Poker

The fulltiltpoker.net pro poker showdown will air live on Fox Sports Net at 6 PM EST on June 22nd. The tournament features a select group of "full tilt" pros including Phil Ivey, Mike Matasow, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, John Juanda, Erik Siedel, and Erik Lindgren. The players will put up a $120,000 entry fee in return for a chance at a $600,000 first place prize. The players combined have 22 WSOP [...] Read More


Home Runs and Bar Poker Internet Poker

pic from Diamond's Sports Bar website When you Play Online poker, there are many strange calls and raises you may see at the tables, regardless of the limits you play at. But, the online player eventually will step away from the laptop/keyboard and try their chops at the local casino or cardroom. A good (depending who you speak with) middle is the bar poker scene. After a softball tourney today (I [...] Read More


New Australian Scratch Ticket And Lottery Games The Gambling Weblog

Our gambling friends down in Australia are great fans of lottery tickets and scratchoffs and some new ones have just been announced. This form of gambling is also quite popular here in the United States, and even though I never win more than a token dollar or two, I can't resist trying a few in each State whenever I'm traveling. Here's the story about the latest Austalian Lottery and "scratchies". Image Source:www.scottware.com.au [...] Read More


Scratch and Sniff DVD's Seem Scents-less The Gadgets Weblog

OK, I admit it, this post has a very, very bad title, but the idea I am writing about is very, very bad. Digital Card, a CD and DVD replication company is offering Rub & Smell CD, DVD, HD-DVD and Flex VCD disks. That's right, they are making scratch and sniff disks. These digital media disks will feature printed labels that will allow an end user to smell what you [...] Read More

Poker Superstars Invitational 3 Internet Poker

The highly popular show Poker Superstars Invitational 3 returned to fox sports net on Sunday, March 12th. The show features 20 6-player matches of no limit texas holdem with some of the biggest names in poker including Daniel Negreanu, Johnny Chan, Phil Helmuth, and jennifer tilly. After the 20 preliminary matches are completed, the top 16 will face off in a playoff format to crown the champion. The winner will [...] Read More


Live Poker Tournament on FSN Internet Poker

The fulltiltpoker.net pro poker showdown will air live on Fox Sports Net at 6 PM EST on June 22nd. The tournament features a select group of "full tilt" pros including Phil Ivey, Mike Matasow, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, John Juanda, Erik Siedel, and Erik Lindgren. The players will put up a $120,000 entry fee in return for a chance at a $600,000 first place prize. The players combined have 22 WSOP [...] Read More


Home Runs and Bar Poker Internet Poker

pic from Diamond's Sports Bar website When you Play Online poker, there are many strange calls and raises you may see at the tables, regardless of the limits you play at. But, the online player eventually will step away from the laptop/keyboard and try their chops at the local casino or cardroom. A good (depending who you speak with) middle is the bar poker scene. After a softball tourney today (I [...] Read More


Race For A Seat Poker Tournament The Gambling Weblog

Here's another opportunity to win a free entry into a major Poker tournament and this one is worth $10,000.00. The Cake Poker Rake Race tournament entry contest is being sponsored by, obviously, Cake Poker and this Internet gambling site accepts online Poker players from the U.S.. If you're going to play online Poker, you may as well play at a site that offers appealing bonuses, so check out the full press release [...] Read More


Ultra Portable For Ghetto Superstars and Combat Vets The Gadgets Weblog

If you like your computers to be tougher that the shiny but prone to scratching metal finish of a MacBookPro you want to check out this ultra-portable. It's bulletproof. Yes, if you live in the kind of neighbourhood where bullets fly by more often than birds, live your life as a mercenary soldier of fortune, or just want something that likes like it belongs in a futuristic remake of the A-Team, [...] Read More

"Stacked" to be released in April Internet Poker

"Stacked" the video game from Daniel Negreanu will finally be in stores in April. The game features an advanced artificial intelligence computer that can learn your tendencies as a poker player and adjust its strategy accordingly. You can play the computer heads-up or multi-player against players all around the world courtesy of the internet. Large multi-table tournaments will be held as well. "Stacked" will be available for X-Box and Play [...] Read More


Daniel Negreanu Backs His Play With Prop Bets Internet Poker

I have been a reader of Full Contact Poker's forums for quite some time after seeing one of the best all-around poker players, Daniel Negreanu, open the doors to his blog and website. The poker site didn't last long thanks to the wonderful Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that scared off the newer players and was eventually forced to merge with PokerStars. But, the forums and Daniel's blog have continued [...] Read More


Brian "The Protege" Fidler on Joe Average Poker Show Internet Poker

Brian Fidler, the protege of Daniel Negreanu, was our guest on the Joe Average Poker Show. Brian talked about his win of the protege tournament on Full Contact Poker and his 2nd place finish at the WSOP circuit event at lake tahoe. Brian plans on trying to follow up his recent strong finish in some preliminary WSOP Events and then the WSOP Main Event on July 27th. The Joe Average [...] Read More


Stacked Game, No not that Kind of Stacked PCGamers Blog

Stacked is a poker game that uses a sophisticated AI that adjust to your playing style rather than simply using programmed responses to your plays. Gamespot says there are supposedly eight different bots that play in the game and each one plays differently. If your into poker and like a challenge, check out the review of Stacked over at Gamespot. [...] Read More


"FORBES" MAGAZINE CELEBRITY LISTS The Celebrities Weblog

Source:www.gothamist.com You know I love lists and I found a bunch of them in "Forbes" magazine, of all places. "Forbes" magazine is basically all about money, and some of the lists deal with celebrity wealth, but "Forbes" has branched out a bit with lists such as, "Bad Girl" celebrities. There's also a listing of the world's most powerful "Kid Stars". Led off by the popular Harry Potter, also known as Daniel Radcliffe, shown here, [...] Read More

Calvin Ayre on cover of Forbes at Internet Poker

According to card player magazine, Calvin Ayre, the founder and CEO of Bodog.com, is on the cover of the new Forbes magazine featuring the world's richest people. Forbes lists the richest 794 people in the world. This is the first time that a member of the gaming community has graced the cover of Forbes. [...] Read More


Bodoglife.com Gives Birth at Internet Poker

Bodog.com www.bodog.com - history Newbodog.com www.newbodog.com - gone faster then a Nathan's hot dog sitting in front of Joey Chestnut Bodoglife.com www.bodoglife.com - its umbilical cord got cut Thursday Calvin Ayre sent an email to me and only me yesterday (ok, maybe it went out to a few other players and media) to assure the readers of this blog were kept in the light about the new digs for this gambOOOOling site. [...] Read More


NewBodog.com is the old Bodog.com at Internet Poker

Bodog is the NewBodog which is the same as the old Bodog but with more letters. Billionaire Calvin Ayre has been sending out emails for the past days, personally of course, to inform those who play poker, ponies, or pull tabs on their site that a domain name struggle has started. Apparently someone has stepped in and claimed the "Bodog.com" domain to be theirs and demanded the cease and desist [...] Read More


Gambling Mogol Calvin Ayre busted by the cops at The Gambling Weblog

More on Calvin Ayre... It seems that getting your picture on the cover of Forbes magazine may have a down side. Especially if you earn your billions through a gambling website. Calvin Ayre's Costa Rican home was busted "as if it were al capone's lair" just hours ago. What Ayre called a 'celebrity poker tournament' the police called 'unlicensed gambling'. Actually, it looks like it was a celebrity poker tournament, which Ayre [...] Read More


Bodog.com Founder Makes Forbes Billionaire List at The Gambling Weblog

He used to sell fruit on the prairies in Canada and now he's the cover star of the latest Forbes Billionaire isse. He also runs a multi-billion dollar company from Costa Rica that is basically illegal in the US, taking bets on everything from college basketball to the tabloid with the first photo of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's baby. 44-yr old Calvin Ayre started bodog.com 10 years ago with just [...] Read More